Fedora 20 GNOME 3 and KDE preview

September 25, 2013 10:27 pm

Fedora 20 is coming along real nice, with many excellent features for desktop and server users. Courtesy of the 4th alpha edition, which was released a few days ago, we can now show you what the Fedora 20 KDE and GNOME 3 desktop will look like.

So in the series of screen shots presented in this article, I bring you a few of those features that I think will be of particular interest to desktop users.

The KDE edition ships with KDE 4.11, while the GNOME 3 edition is running GNOME 3.9.91 (pre-release version of what will become GNOME 3.10), with the default GNOME Shell.

The first set of screen shot is from a test installation of Fedora 20 KDE, which is still using the Kickoff menu as the default menu style. But the NetworkManager applet has been tweaked a little bit, and the interface looks a lot more user-friendly than the previous editions.

These screen shots were taken from installations in a virtual environment, so what’s the system doing estimating battery usage?

Activities overview and the notification area.

Applications viewer.

Talking about applications, GNOME 3 now has an integrated software manager called GNOME Software. The main interface is shown in the screen shot below. It’s still a work in progress, but it looks good already. Just needs a little bit more work here and there. What this means is that in the future, there will be no need for a standalone graphical package manager in GNOME 3. You can view more screen shots of GNOME Software at GNOME Software preview on Fedora 20 alpha.

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